| 单词 | macrocosm |
| 释义 | macrocosm (once / 41040 pages) n The macrocosm is everything that exists: it's another word for the universe or cosmos. If you know that micro means "small" and macro means "large," that can help you remember the meaning of this word: the macrocosm is the largest thing there is, since it's a word for everything in existence. Macrocosm is also used to talk about the big picture versus the little picture (the microcosm). WORD FAMILYmacrocosm: macrocosmic, macrocosms USAGE EXAMPLESThe way a poker game is “a macrocosm of life – every new hand is your fate and you can play with your fate”. The Guardian(Sep 22, 2016) In this holistic way the whole shapes the parts, taxonomical units cohere into clouds, microcosms mushroom into macrocosms, webs of interrelationship form. Slate(Sep 13, 2016) Microcosm meets macrocosm — as another of her paintings is titled — and the membrane between them blurs. Los Angeles Times(Apr 07, 2016) n everything that exists anywhere Syn|Hypo|Hyper cosmos, creation, existence, universe, world closed universe (cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter natural orderthe physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws naturethe natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man |
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